The Morgul Maze is the second book in the Joshua of Gaia series, written by M.G. Goggin. Joshua is one of eighteen orphans who are regularly bullied by the bigger kids and mistreated by a cruel headmistress, Gertrude (aka Whale). Josh has flashbacks of how...

In a wonderful new work in the genre of adventurous fiction for children, Things on a Tree by author D.L. Finn is a book that will pull readers in from the very first page. Following the story of our protagonist, Aimee, readers will be taken...

Sheep is the precursor to Cows! Both books are by Martin D. Rothery. I read them out of order, but I can truly say I don’t think that it diminished my enjoyment of either. The point is not the plot so much as it is...

Not since Animal Farm by the legendary George Orwell have I seen such an entertaining and astute use of animals to portray the foibles of people. Martin D. Rothery has created a book that is both funny and philosophical in Cows! Imagine for a minute...

Meet Jet, a scrappy groundhog that must work with humans and forecast lightning strikes to save his home from an eco super villain planning to pulp entire national forests with giant, robotic milling snakes. Jet lost his father and hero, Ray, during his first garden...

I’m a sucker for tales of the Greek gods. My absolute favorites are the Norse gods, but there are just more stories about the Greek pantheon out there and I read whatever I can find. If you are a mythology lover and a fan of...

Liberty Frye and the Sails of Fate by J.L. McCreedy is the sequel to Liberty Frye and the Witches of Hessen where readers learn how Liberty realizes that she is not an ordinary ten-year-old girl. Libby is eleven today and she feels everyone is behaving...

Snow Bunny: Chronicles of a Wererabbit, Book Two is a fantasy for young adults and preteens written by M.Y. Zeman and illustrated by Jason Moser. Snow still remembers when her dad rescued her from a lab when she was a very small and frightened baby...

Cosmic Chaos by CM Shelton is a science fiction adventure for kids. This is the kind of science fiction novel I grew up reading. Robert A. Heinlein was my first love among writers as a boy and this novel is as good as many of...

Addy and The Golden Egg by Beatrix S. Tambunan is an illustrated children’s book. It is Easter time in Boston and the big Easter egg hunt has begun. Addy arrives late and is embarrassed because she is dressed in plain clothes, whereas the other children...